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Life is filled with problems, and one of them happens to be Grape Nuts cereal. The problem with Grape Nuts cereal is not that name (though that is extremely confusing), nor is it the taste (that’s the joy of Grape Nuts!) — it’s the look. I don’t personally find the look or texture unappealing. It …

So the whole work thing isn’t working out. Well, whatever. I’ve gotten fairly exhausted filling out applications for advertised jobs, writing and submitting cover letters and resumes for those jobs, and getting rejected (most of the time without being notified). Last week, on a whim, I decided to take all the usual resume and cover …

So this is Christmas. There are the Christmas letters I’ve been steadily receiving. Facebook is like a year-long Christmas letter, always prompting me to remember how boring and unexciting my life is, how little I’ve achieved, how I’m not married and have no perfectly adorable kids doing adorable things, nor as thin or in shape …

She got the call today, one out of the grey And when the smoke cleared, it took her breath away She said she didn’t believe ‘it could happen to me’ I guess we’re all one phone call from our knees We’re gonna get there soon –Mat Kearney, “Closer to Love“ Ten years ago, on September …

(Part 2: Further exploration on this topic.) I’ve been running the TV show “Numb3rs” in the background for a little noise while I paint. Somewhere back in season two, while painting a city scene canvas, episode seven popped up and caught my eye. In it, the character Charlie (a mathematician whiz who helps the FBI) …